{"id":12182,"date":"2018-04-13T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:15:25","slug":"engineer-from-nasa-jpl-holds-video-conference-with-travis-ranch-trailblazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12182","title":{"rendered":"Engineer from NASA-JPL holds video conference with Travis Ranch Trailblazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 10, 8th graders at Travis Ranch School had the opportunity to video conference with Aaron Yazzie, a mechanical engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>The Trailblazers learned about the Mars robotic missions with which he is involved, including Curiosity, Insight (launching May 5), and Mars 2020. The students then had an opportunity for a Q &amp; A session where they asked him questions ranging from his childhood and school experiences, to when he thinks humans will set foot on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>This experience was courtesy of a program called SpaceTime Experts organized by The Planetary Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Travis-Ranch-Mechanial-Engineer-NASA-4-11-18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12184\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Travis-Ranch-Mechanial-Engineer-NASA-4-11-18-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Travis ranch students on video chat.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Travis-Ranch-Mechanial-Engineer-NASA-4-11-18-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Travis-Ranch-Mechanial-Engineer-NASA-4-11-18-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Travis-Ranch-Mechanial-Engineer-NASA-4-11-18-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 10, 8th graders at Travis Ranch School had the opportunity to video conference with Aaron Yazzie, a mechanical engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178],"tags":[1709,1668,401],"class_list":["post-12182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","tag-trailblazers","tag-travis-ranch","tag-travis-ranch-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}